User's Manual

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CDRW

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APPENDIX

Glossary of terms CD-RW

THE BEST WAY TO CREATE YOUR OWN CDs - WITH

RE-USABLE CD-RW.

• CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) gives you the opportunity to

create your own CDs, in the best and most cost-effective

way. CD-RW is, in fact, the logical extension of CD-

Recordable (CD-R). Together, they give you the

opportunity to run the media that best suits the job in

hand.

• CD-RW supports the recording of small packages of data,

using incremental packet writing in the universal (UDF)

file format. As with floppy discs, you have the option of

writing a disc all at once, or building it up bit by bit - and

re-using the disc later for other data.

• CD-RW media can be rewritten hundreds, or even

thousands of times. This means that the overall running

costs, for hardware and software together, can be very

economical indeed.

• CD-RW will greatly extend your personal short-term

storage capacity, providing space for large-volume files

like Internet downloads, backups, and hard disc dumps. It

is also excellent for low-quantity multimedia applications,

from one-off disc testing to small-scale distribution

MULTIREAD: MAKING CD-RW MEDIA COMPATIBLE WITH CD-

ROM AND DVD-ROM.

• CD-RW media reflects less laser light than the other CD

media. To play all CD media, drives must be able to

adapt to these different reflectivities.

• For compatibility, drives need to do this in a standard

way. They also need to interface and interact with their

host computer systems in a standard way.

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